act” (CEL2, 282). Practices are communicative and communication is a human practice.
When we communicate, we influence ourselves and others.
The level of living life consists of an interaction of social structures, organisations, and the subsystems of society. All structures, groups, organisations, institutions, systems, and subsystems have economic, political, and cultural dimensions. In many social systems, one of these dimensions is dominant so that we can differentiate between economic, political and cultural structures/organisations/subsystems of society (compare Table 5.1). At the level of lived life, humans relate to each other through communicative practices. These communicative practices are the foundations of the production, reproduction, and differentiation of economic, political, and cultural structures/organisations/subsystems that condition human practices. There is a dialectic of the living and the lived in any society. This is a dialectic of human subjects and social objects.
Lefebvre stresses that in communication there are two subjects but that there is always the presence of the third (CEL2, 150–156). We talk about others and communication takes place in social contexts where others shape our everyday life and everyday communication. Communication also has the potential to change social structures which impacts the everyday life of others. There are parallels between
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